LONDON LETTER.
(From our own Correspondent)
LONDON, August 14th;
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1896.
place called Bath Shemenb, just within the borders of Israel. Great rejoicingu were held when the good folks saw the ark brought back, bat they were short Eve1, for enterode beaks out
pajallala al worth latitude)› It is a somewhat singular... colscidence. (hur 'n slusifer disaster has just befallen the Chinese; another son-warn, | Ave mlios-wide, having swept the const al
THE SKISMIC WAVE DISASTER.. | THE VICEROY LID'S DESPATCH
RELIND IT WOOSUNG.
· KOLE·RELIEF FUND.
Kobo, September 1st, The following is a translailon of a despatch
Final amount Hongkong subscription 118.00 Lin Kunyi, Vicnoy of the Liang Klang provinces, fox which we are indebted to our Shanghal morning contemporary:-}}
agala and they were only too glad to be rid of fe / at Kuchang scarcely a year ago two men were | Klang-en-and ́destroyed-four thousand of the Amount previously acknowledged.........$14,444-02 / received by Humar, Tantal of 'Shrerbal, fruta'
FOOCHOW NOTES. ¿
September jih. By the decision of the Commission which sai
banished beyond the frontier, one for ten years and the ether for life. The sentence passed on the latter was originally that of death, but as the Court filled to prove that ko had actually com- mitted murder, the sentence was commuted to
inkabitante.
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and sent a messenger to Kirjath-Jmrim saytog, As you may Imagino, Li Hang-chang has been 'Come ye down and fetch it up to you." Further, the talk of the city. The people here seem to in the same part, it is stated that these smerods hawe treated him correctly—no great friss, but a ❘ smote them in their seciet parts. These are welcome bea:ty and spontaneous, Li seems to wonderfally accurate datalia. The baboes, as entertain, amuse, and instruct him, and be han ❘ and is no better a word than suerod. Thas homes in the neighbourhood of Kecheng carry. ¡olLord Salisbury, the Premier, as Warden of 3 with a most interesting leiter from the Gavainor, | been gradually growing to be more and inor enter cordially into all that has been done to we call them, simply signifies a swelling, gained for himself a form of candid respect came in the secret parts and many deaths ensued from the folks with whom he has come in contact and in the opinion of the public generally,
"A Bible reading meeting might improve your knowledge of the disease and seatst the Sanitary anthorhies in their work. Why not call a special meeting of the Odd Volumes to look into and discuss this subject ?
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$14.573.00 'J. S. HAFFER, Sce, &+ TransurST «; TWO DAYS LATER THAN BY THE FRINCH MAIL..
Lê Do durant To The Hangkang subscription list bas (says the Yesterday the ceremony of the installation Kode Chronicle) just been forwarded, togather
carlomary pomp. In a speech after the function as followsTMTMTMTM the Cinqua Forts, was performed with the Lord Saishaty referred to the Eastern Question, and declared that the gangrene of the Ottoman Empire threatened the health and cecurity of the
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cratre of the rotransa The Transvaal Volksraad has granted the franchisa to 5,000 persons who stood by the Republis à during the raid of Dr. Jameson.
The Parnellites have protested that the cur vantion of sail-Parnaillies, which is to be held next monik in Dublin, represents merely a faci tion. The Pammallites themselves intend to con vent a meeting in October.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, Hongkong, 20th August, 1896. Sir-With reference to my letter of the 15th
I take this opportunity to ask you to convey to your Committee the expression of grailGestion It has given me and this Community to be able to conftibute, in however small a degree, to the relief of the victims of this devastating disaster, I trust that this practical proof of our sympathy may help to alleviate "their sufferings, so vividly described in the public papers.
I am, Sir,
The mouth of the Womung River in the chil amongst the Treaty ports and a most important thoroughfare for vesicle trading by 'ses and river. In recent times the bar at Woosung has
obstructive by the settling of the slit, so that the huge steamers of the great companies and trading vessels which carry heary
nongo above the general run
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alle for life. Both these men ars now in their on their usual occupationr la calm defiance Further, the mice were evidently blamed, as thay, as is far more probable, with the full know. sra cow, as being the precursors and accom. ledge of the officials. The circumstance is His queries are worthy of the enligbioned prulments of plague, and their, effigles un wat,pa which is scarcely likely to heighten any hole of Europe. The danger would continue July I now beg to forward to you a statemesi of] compelled to anchor in, the vicinity of Woosung men he is, and his dignity and bearing as those of the baboer were 'burat. Fartber* | good affect the sitting of the Commission 117 | to exist until - the Fowers abated the disease in the Tidal Wave Relief Fund secount showing | since they cannot go up to Shanghai. In pro- and behaviour are in consonance with the import the sik seemed to have caused infection by had. The error of the Home Government la desling so leniently with the, officials, who ant position he occupies in the world. Suobbery either the materials themselves or by the throughout the affair neted with the utmost and Impertinence seem to be ble pet aversions, priests who accompanied it.
callousness and obstructios, cantinans `thus to and the conftulón with which he overwhelms
make itself seen.- Foochow Echo. officions Interviewers will no doubt often be
| Imlisted in the future. It is related that an American lady Interviewer was held at arms length with the following :-How old are you? Why are you not married?. Why don't you live! In your own country? These are a few of a string of questions which would take the courage est af most women. Hats, however, never im- polite, and after the category related he ́bebaved with gracious generosity towards her. His question at the Bank of England---* Why don't you adopt bimetallam was a thrust at the very cora of conservative monometalliams that will be koonly relished by many in the Far East. The entertainment given at the Crystal Palace by the #vergreen Hongkong and Shanghal Bank u thorities was brilliant in the extreme. Some three -hundred sat down to dinner and we only wanted the texmorial" T. J." to bave been here to havO, completed the memorable festivity. The fire-
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NEWS BY THE NORTHERN PACIFIC MAIL.
Our Foochow corrervondent, wilting on the grå instant, says-On Sunday best four Chiucas were amisted by the Chinese officials in a sign building owned by Mr. H. W. Churchill, alinated next to his office here. On enquiry it was found the prisoners rented the house from Mt. Churchill, and were busily engaged in mluting | considerable quantity of brain or counterfeit to cents and 20 cânta pieces. It seems that this swindling has been in operation ever since these people rinted the brua. As the house was foreign-owned the officials were obliged to get permission from the Consul for the arrests. To thin the Consul accedad. On examination of the prisoner the evidence elicited the existence of The Northern Pacific Co.'s steamship Victoriansiber place of like character, itunand at Capt. A. Gore, which left Tacoms on the 15th Mamal, This house was tested by "Chinese August, arrived in harbour this morning. The from A Portuguese named F. Falicjano. Tanners did not following islegrams are taken from our Tacoma This time the Chinese
#o, bat exchanges :—
the Chinese official asked the Commissioner of Customs to send soose of his men lo strest the coiners, and I understand that
NEW YORK, August 8ik,
The World's London cable sayu :~High Life in London has taken seriously the possibility of William Waldorf Astor marrying the Prince of The ugly things Wales' daughter, Victória. that are said prove that. British pride is touched to the quick. High life in London is no more
works were most appropriate and dealing, and It must have struck "the Wise Man from the Far East" that fireworks can be made as wonder ful in England ** in China and without the Incessant noise of the firecracker and the rattle al the unmusica! Bram of his native land. Lapt to be thrown into a fiary of excitement by Hung-chang's visit to Europe and especially to fanciful rumors than to be shocked by common. England, is, perhaps, one of the greatest place immorality, The drawing-rooms and clubs vices be bas ever rendered to China. Gorden's monument still wears the wreath Li deposited there, and a more simple, effective and reverent
ceremony than that enacted by Gordon's old Retociate has certainly never been seen 15
London.
The House of Commons silli draga lia weary length along and bills that one never hears of
daring the heat of the Session are being buried through, docketed, and labelled "passed." One hopes that the best ends are being attained for the benefit of the State, but one can hardly understand modern opposition as being anything bat mere obstruction. The Education Bill has been laid aside and the Tenants' Bill is affording scope for ill-timed talk. However,
Mr. H. Dufour along with some other was deputed for this purpose on Monday last, and succeeded in capturing six of the Chiness, whom they handed over to the proper authorities for trial. The dies and other tools of both these of by the Chinese officials-China Gaselle.
a private mints have been taken possession
JAPAN.
THE COTTON SPINNING INDUSTRY.
We are reminded of the rapid progress made by the Cotton Splaning Industry in this country, 2373 the Kee Chronicis, during the mat few years by the following figures for the first four
months of this year :—
No. of Ms. No, of Spizikes,
54 $71,607 381,037 55
599,407 505.127
February March ... 58 April
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Daring the same period the quantity of yarn span and raw colton consumed as cott
Cotton yn fra cotton con
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January 1,552,200
1,880,4*5
1,801,995
February.......1,526,230 Murich connect,799 735 2,030,559 April ...........1,718,068 1,988 413 Average........1,646,B1 1,043.620
·A kwamme is equal to 84 lbs.] Comparing these figures with the average
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Your obedient servant,
Mr. Wilson, the secretary of the Seamen's Union, who was recently expelled from Antwerp, has led a manifesto, in which the salines and and firemen, are urged to demand a minimus wage. The wharf hands aix. (waspars are sekai to refuse so, waland varsels at the British and Continental ports from ships employing non- unionists: This proposal is regarded un SI effort to crase the number of members of tka Sestuen's Union. The shipowas latend tu J. S. HAPPER, Erg., adhere to the principle of freedom of contract, and claim the right to employ what men thay lles, whether unionists or otherwise. They have determined to realst the demands of the Scamen's Union,
His Majesty the Tuar of Russia, who ⋅ is contemplating, with the Tsarina, an extensive tour through France, Germany, and Kangland, will visit Parla in October." "Already great preparations are being made for the Emperos's reception. Among the festivities the occasios will be review of the Russian and French frets at Cherbourg.
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August 1y/h.
The column, under the command of Major Thomas has balita foet on the Gwes River, to the North-west of Edlawayo, and has sepulsed three impls of the rebels,
A phenomenally rich crushing of gold on the Kootenal River, British Columbia, is causing great excitement in Canada, and a big rash has already taken place to the west.
Thirty-alos German wanbips, including the Kurfurst Friedrich Witham, the largest iron- cled fo the German navy, passed safely through
the Kaiser Wilheim Canal, between Ermabatwel In the Kibo estuary and Holtenan in Kiel Bay, in E5 hours.
A French steamer, the Quatre Amis and the Cape York, which was bound for Australia, collided off the month of the Scheldt. The Capa York's bowsprit was broken, and the versal wa towed back to Antwerp. The captain of the Quatre Amts run his hħip mahore to prevent her from foundering.
WILLIAM ROBINSON.
On behalf of Subscribers.
Treasurer, Kabe Relief Fund.
subscriptions collected to this Colony smounting Cess of time the silt will become greater and the to $6.128.00 $4,000.00 (four thousand dollars) depth of the river more shellow, in which casO have been already remitted to yon by Telegraphic Wooung will, of secerally, become the com- Transfer and for the balanca I now enclose a mercial emporium of the place. Indeed foreign- Demand Draft on the Hongkong and Shanghai era of all nations are unanimous in their belief that this will be the case. The prices demandet Bank for $118.00,
for land at Wocsang, at the present moment, are not inferior to those demanded, in the dia trict of Shangbai, Wooring will also be the great starting point for the railways of the future and through it the goods for other provinces will naturally have to pass, in reside overland, On a former occasion I instructed deputies to survey the foreshors accretions of the two districts of Shanghai and Paoshan, and the reinit was that |it_wan" reported to me that the foreshore of Shanghal, was: valoed-at_from- $100,000-fo $250,000, while that of Paoshan was from $80,000 to $90,ces. It seems therefore in fact that in process of time the foreshores of Shanghai and Puoskun will keep ons rapidly accreting. But,
• KOBE, September 3rd.
again, the land within Paoshan district cannot The final remittance from the subscription || be rented to foreign merchants, and precedents list in Shanghal opened by the W, C, Dally Nanis | for this can be found to the records. It is, how was received to-day by telegraphle transfer ever, important to provide against the possibility through the Hongkong and Shanghal Banking that a time paises there will be certala persons who may be tempted to sell their Corporation. This closes the Hats for the Kobe and on their own responsibility. Hence you are Instructed to order the magistrate of Paoshan district to make a careful survey of Relief Fund, and belogs the grand total to over
Reen thousand dollars, as follows ---
Ibe whole 'country in bis jurisdiction and also to command the landowners there to obey the Treaty regulations and not rent or sell land (to outalders). You are alsó réquised to look Inta the matter carefully yourself, and should it turn out that thern have been cases where the natives have rented land to foreign merchants, you are commanded to refuse granting the usual tile deeds emanating from your office. You ar thes to look around you to see whether you can collect sufficient manied people to form com- panies to buy up, such lands, It, by thems means, foreigners are prevented from acquiring land in Pasthan, the native companies will then be able to utilise their property when the rali- ́ways ara Yald. “It would, then 'simplify matterm
In the future.
Previously acknowledged ...$14,572.00- T. T. from N. C. Daily News "869.00
Total $15,441.00 The Committee hope soon to present their report, showing the manner in which the above sum has been expended, as the sub-Committee recently appointed are relively engaged in making the purchases recommended by Mr. Sim, and in arranging for their distribution,
J. S. HAPPEN,
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SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUR:
English (Pekin) 18th Inst. German (Prics Hetarich) xand inst. Australian (Australan) aand last. American (Coptic) a3rd løst, American (City of Rio de Janeiro) goth lusk.: *Tacoma (Olympia) 4th prax.
Intimations.
POSTPONEMENT OF MEETING.
NOTICE.
THE silk er steamship Empress of China was HONGKONG GENERAL Chamber of delivered in New York on the rathsinst.
COMMERCE,
THE P. & O. 5. N. Co.'s steamer Malacca leke MEMBERS of the HONGKONG
there must be a big question it vocems, every one' who has taken the trouble to monthly production for last year an increase ls | Expeditions that have been allowed to leave. Dingapore for this port at{6 am, on the rath Inst.
and as long as it is confined to a squabble between schoolmasters and bishops, and land. lords and their tenants, there can be but little
harm done to the Empire.
tion and of 789,000 kwamme In the average noted of over 8(0,000 kwamme in the produc monthly consumption of raw cotton, The aver age price of cotton yarn last year was 84.74 yen per bile of 48 kwamme of 400 lbs. walle the 94.46 yen,
The French Government has decided to ex pend 13,000.000 franes (£180,000) an the ocession of the approaching visit of the Tsar.
The Spanish Government is preparing an Immenat claim for damages against the United States of America, on account of the fillburtering
gunboats have passed the American ports for Cube,
TOR London Times announces that the second cataract on the Nile below Akashab. Governments of France and Russia have decided Owing to the excessive heat in New York last wank 651 deaths from sunstroke occured.
Several British
The excitement all over England has been the vast wealth, wers"subordinate. · Alter having price for the first four months this your arczaenk❘ to protect the Chefstians in Crete,
final test cricket match between Ergised and 'Australia. One can hardly realise the nervous
have bad no sensation like this for maniku, nor have they been so wrought up. Ask an English woman of the circle" her grounds foralarm. for supposing the son of the Queen of Regland will permit his daughter to marry the grandson of a German far peddler and she will answer-"Bot the diamond he gave the Princess Mand." It is fact that Aston's New York, properties have contributed a gem worth a fortune to the royal bride, but the circumstance that the gift was not returned is significant. It will be hand for Americans to understand how much this really means, and it is this that has set London agog. It is a tacit recognition of the renegade American on the plane of a British nobleman of the first rank. Astor, with his millions of New York rents, has been stalking high game. To the cautious, deliberate course observe adopted by the American millionaire, it has been apparent from the very outset that he had la view some definite aim, some object upon which his ambition was centered, and to which every thing, his newspapers, his magazļces and his daring the first few years of his sojourn here maintained the most reserved demeanor, that, In fact, of social chrysalis, ha has this year gorgeous and magnificent species,
butterfly, indeed, who manifests aupreme disdain for all but the very choicest flowers of England's
At one moment stocracy, ported he had in view a marriage with Lady Randolph Churchill, and many eras went so | far as to question her sons as to the date fixed for the wedding. But it has since become apparent that W. W. Astor flies at far higher game; that he aims at nothing less than a match. ➡ith the British royalty in the person of Princers Victoria, the only somarried daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Slight as may appear the possibility of Mr. Astor's becoming the grandson-in-law of Queen Victoria, the matter is very seriously discussed as not at all unlikely to the drawing rooms Maylat, in clobdom and in Court clicies And let it be understood tight here at the very antret, there is nothing whatsoever in the English Conlution or law to stand in the way of each an alliance. One of Queen Victoria's daughters, the charmlog Princess Louise, is married to a commoner, her husband, Lord Larne, belag nois accorded the title of Marquis by courtesy, and being nothing more than mere fahn Campbell is the eyes of the law. Ia marrying Princhus Victoria Mr. Astor would probably, like his future brother-in-law, receive the title of Daks on his wedding day, and might become as much a factor in the bistory of Great
OSAKA HARBOVA WORKS. The estimate for the Osaka Harbour Works,
1899................... 1900.............. 1931.......
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a few days ago, amonate to 21,675,000 78m of which 18,048,000 yen ars to be expended inside of eight years, as follows:---
1897.mumi 2,280,000 yen. 1898................... 2,152,000 *** 2,668.com 2,554,000 2,607,000 2,608.000 1 190 2.188,000 μ 781.000 # 1004..........equnciäeorisi The Government grant-in-ald of the under taking, amounting to 5,240,000 yes, is likewiss to be paid over within the period named. Thus:
1897............................... 100,000 300, 1898........sininesciores 200,070 „
stała we were all worked up tɔ. Affairs in maret forth as a fall-fledged whifosily of the most which was passed by the Oraks City Assembly the Sondan, Rhodesia and far sway Ashanti were quite in the background for the time being. The placards and "sandwiches" ol newspaper Intelligence were occupied by only one announcement. "The Test Match Latest Selections Latest Scores; Australia Going Strong I Collapse tof "Australia Grace Out1 and o forth. These and Goth, ing but these were shouted out along even the quietent streats by the news-boys, and the even. ing papers had special editions after every wicket feil. You all know the result—a mastery of bowling over battlng, and the establishment of the fact that both sides were so nervous that it was a marvel they made as many runs as they did.
We have read the Governor's report with - Interest, and those who know the circumstances declare the statements made to be exact and fair. It seems to me an excellent report as far as the plague pure and simple is concerned, and we hope that the Commliston ha proposes la appoint will be one worthy of the occasion, seal is recommended to appoint three me only. Your milltary P.M.O., your Medican
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A GREAT DISCOVERY. COLOUR-PHOTOGRAPHY NOW UN TAIT ACCOMPLI. What the many hrya dreamt of has been found at last. This great accomplished fact does not consist of the reds, blam, and yellows which have been before the public. As many s seventeen colours are now beautifully blended together by this new process—a process which, for the past ball contury, has been before the | mlade of many scientists, and upon which hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent
THE Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s steamer Empress of India left Yokohama for Vancouver last Friday afternoon.
THE P. K. §. 3. Co.'s steamer City of Rio de Jansire, with malls, etc., left San Francisco for this part, via Yokohama and Nagasaki, on the 3rd inst
THE Mutual Line Mannship Oaufa, from Glasgow and Liverpool, lait Bingapore for this port yesterday morning, and may be expected, here on or about the Igih inst.
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THE P. & 0. Co's steamship Pekin, with the next English mail, left⋅ Singapore for this port at 4 pm. yesterday, and may be expected here at'noon on the 18th fast.
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The China Mutual S. N. Cas reamer Kistuck, from Glasgow and Liverpool, passed the Canal yesterday, and may be considered due at Singapore on of about the 1st pro
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SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of
GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE = he held on SATURDAY, the 19th September Loslapt, at 27.15 A.M., In the CHAMBER ROOMS, CITY HALL, for the Purposes of
Protesting against the action of the Tele graph Companies in suddenly raising their Rates for Europe and America 371 % and 45.16 X respectively;
and Nominating a Member of the Chamber for
appointment to the Legislative Council. With reference to the latter, any Mambar. having a Candidate to propose will please communicate with the Secretary on or before Noom of÷MONDAY, the 14th September, la order that the necessary arrangements for a ballot may be made.
By Order,
R. CHATTERTON WILCOX,
Secretary, Hongkong, Yath September, 1806.” f1418
CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY: LIMITED, NOTICE TO SHARKHOLDERI. THE THIRTIETH ORDINARY MEXT- ING of SHAREHOLDERS in the sbevi COMPANY will be held at the HEAD CIVICK Victoria, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 26th instant, at Twelve o'clock Noow, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and THE F. M. S. S. Co.'s some City of Paking, Statement of Accounts to gath April last and of
The TRANSFER BOOKS the with malls, etc., which left Hongkong on August Declaring Dividends, 16th for Tax: Francisco, via Amoy, Nagasaki bo CLOSE, OK of the Company
Instant, both days inclusfro. Kobe, Inland Sea and Yokohama, arrived at ber destination on the roth last.
By Order of the Board of Directora,
W. H. RAY,
Sacratary.
[1497 Hongkong, 4th September, 1896.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,
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The title to this discovery is about equally divided between an insirions Irishman, Pro- fessor Joly, of Dublin, and a shrewd Yankee, who has been carnestly pursuing a series of THE O. & O, S. S. Co.'s steamer Copiic, with experiments in Chicago for the past thirty years mails, etc., from San Francisco to the 26th allo, It appears that Professor Joly's experiments has arrived at Yokohama, and will leave for were crowned with: raccom some few months this port, via Nagasaki, to-morrow morning. ago, when he came to America in order to obtain letters patent for his invention. Upon arrival kere, however, he was autorished to and The city proposes to issue bonds to meet the that McDonough was ahead of him in his appli expense. The amount to be raised and the incatan for an American patent. It is said that ́w`law: unit la ́likely to rawit in order to prove priority. feress thereon is thus set forth :—
We understand that a company to develop this remarkable discovery is on the eve of form. ation, and that a charter under the laws of Vis glala has been granted, with $500,000 capital
Instantangons or time exposures, absolutely perfect in detail, can be taken. The finished photograph is a magalicent product. Experi ments are in progress, and li is expected that Talcksong · mini results will show that this process can be trans- | Hallcong ............... ferred to the art af printing... It will be only a Hethow mm.................... question of time when a photograph can be Tantalus? taken and then painted from a half-tone plate Bayer - N
Aggregating 16,979 tons regizine. on a specially prepared paper, so as to show up Victoris man
VA DEPARTUÄES, The process requires a specially ruled screen All the original colours trus to Life,
Loess bonds.
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COMPANY will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICES, ON SATURDAY, the 26th September, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Genersi : Managers, toguizer with, Statement of Accounts to goth June, 1896.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED. frens the rrth to the ath September, both days inclusiva.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Ca., General Managers. Hongkong, 5th September, 1896. HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS," ◄ONTRIBUTING SHAREHOLDERS
requested to send in a STATEMENT M BUSINESS CONTRIBUTED - during the Half-year ended 30th June, 1896, on or before the 15th Suntem bar, on which dite the Acconcia
Officer of Health, and a third from home; the Brist as the lamented husband of Queen faiter to be a sixltary engluren. The same Victoria, known by the tile of the Prince Journal Izslats upon an executive power | Consorti being giving to the Commission and
Hatizo, Sweden, August 13th,
THE SEXIMIC WAVE DISASTER.DK that it should sit for two years, or until such
in the Geographical Journal appears an The newspaper Dogananyhaler will print a time as itu wasic-in finished. In fact, it advocates communication from Dr. Hansen and Leal interesting article by Professor Jobs Millas, that the power of a "Royal Commission" be Schottansen, from the island of Vardee. The FR.9., on the recent seismic wave. In Japan. granted, which means that powers of punishment communication states that they abandoned the The Professor recalls the fact that in 1293. Fram in the aurama of 1895 and resorted to ics. great wave carried away thirty thousand even to the death are conferred upon le in:
The steamer Wigdward, cenying supplies to Tapanese at a place a little south of the case of and specially ruled paper. A mall-caloured Kiangnan momsteamer, for Canton. respect of such fadividuals as obey not its edicts the Jackson Farnworth expedition picked them the recent disaster, wall costs still further screen, ruled by very fine lines, formed of dots Cold or obstruct fis work, I can qalte understand up near Fraes Jopet land. They expected tast south have frequently suffered enormously. Inor small particles, is employed, Fundamental | Chunthan monsteran the desire some of you in Hongkong may have the Fram would eventually drth to the east 1703, on the coast of Aws, the loss of life colours of the spectrum are preferably used for Tacoma coast of Greenland. Dr. Nansen falled to reach exceeded one hundred thousand. There was there lorsay orange sed, a yellowish grean, Formers to lynch P.W.D. man or a Water Authority
the north pole, bat he touched a pelet for an awinl ion on the Paravias caust in 1865 and | and a vielat blue.
The screen is ruled wish liman in theme colony, Hongkong una now and again; but to howa Commission degrees nearer than any other explorer has the strthquake wares were felt in Japani, equally qualified to perform such an act off- dane. Dr. Namsan felt the Fraw on March the great sea-wave of 1883 in Java and Sumaire about three hundred to the inch. This screen is Chiangchow«IOTAS
placed in front of and in close contact with an Bilgst umum hand would cause a chuckle of railsfaction | | 14. 1895 in 84 degrees of north fatlinde. Ba | was also felt in "the Britain of the FR ERR.?
Opinions as to the cause of the disaster are orthochromatic plats, which is then exposed in Triumph... traversed the polar sex to a point 55 degrees, 14 Indeed.
minutes north latitude, situated north of the still divided. At first it was supposed that the the carsees to the object to be photographed.. Hotkow Plague, I am glad to know, is on the wine, New Sibaria Islands, No land was sighted disturbance had its origin in the endden collaps The ordinary black and white negative is thus C. Z. H. Allen Senin (ship)
erater known obtained in lines coresponding to the acroin in. Agresting 17,529 toes register," By the way, it has been pointed out by no less porth of Sa degrees of latifunde or thenon to Fans of the skies of the sales con cades (new regliter. From this negatiev in positive in sands HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURN,
asal Land, where he passed the winter, ambalat. an authority than Professer Robertson. Smilteng on bear's flass and whale blubber. Dr. Rear Admiral) Belknap, of the United States in the culinary way on sises or paper. If now Propontis-ammes in Kowloon that plague is carefully recorded by the Jewish Nansen and his companions are in the best of frigate Tuicarora, twenty-twn ynam ugo found the screen, or a similarly ruled one, he laid on the historians in the Book of Samuel. There the heath The Frase a expected at Vardos or trough-like depression off the north-east coast pastilve, and mored mill the positive and the Nasyo Mars word emered signifies a tumours swalling Bergen shortly. She stood the climate well of Japan. The Seavy wounding lead took about screen are in reglater, the picture comes up in Zoom
Hongkong, ayla August, 1896. ..... and it is interesting reading especially for your There were ou sick persons aboard when an hour and a half to reach the botom, and original colours, paren
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is a very simple cum, Nansen left her. The steamer Windward took indicated a depth of four thousand six hundred
THE CHINA MUTUAL STEAM-NAVIGA- medical experts to turn to the 5th and 6th letters for Nakon when I started to the and sixty-five fathoms, or over five and a half is destined to become. Immediately popular. It really m
VENTION COMPANY. LIMITED WAS chapters of the first book of Samuel The wallet the Jackson-Harmswork expedition, as statele miles. But it being inimably evident acems in pariect harmony with natural law. I GOREGA
that the centre of the recent disturbance lay is only anime's
SHAREHOLDERS are beby informed that Philistines captured the "ask of the Lord and Mr. Jackson expected to find Nassen auⱭ WAS
GENERAL MEETING bald bu when it had been amongst them some time, convinced that his ides of driting across the between the thirty-nless the furtieth paralla delleale plak and the sky is transparent hips.
A gentleman insted in this discovery a low
LONDON recently an INTERIM DIVIDEND pole in the los was impracticable”). He was also of latitude and the hundred and forty-second ensrode (tumours) broke out wherever it was convinced that Nansen would reten ln the die and was Tuesross, Deep sows to be Halla century of patient experiment has at last and forty-third meldlang of days ago said saw? Ellis wonderful, wonderful.
of -3 FER CERT. WAS DECLARED on he taken-metil-st ̈last the vicious "determined, rection of Frans Joost Land: - Dr. Feliļājs Nan-
longitude, the send away the "ark of the Lord" and we, the Norwegian scientist, new so years of excluded from the problems. On the other hand, come to workething Photographe absolutely ray fired light of the Tungant Light-vertal N COMPART'S PREFERENCE SHARES for the Str give it back to the Imnalites. Then 9gs, salted from Chrisilana on June 24th, 1893, comidering that the advent of the great ware trua la maters can be made without expensive, chwaig, has been replaced by a Freiring Light Mowres ending 30th June, this being at the
· they said, “If ya sond away the ark of the l ́and wfilike Intastión af risching the north | whose wertical character prociades the hypothse"; tionisa the art of photography, and allow lig uG WRISThe Light is slevated 35 fast above"ike | |--The DIVIDEND WARRANTS will be ready
on a voyage of discovery to the Arctid regions was immediately preceded by earthquake shocks treatment, and in any quantity," It will sevold- showing while starkey at intervals of all sale of 6 VER GLEZ. FIR ANKUno, ! | pole if possible. He: embarked on board tha is that they were due to the pendow rolling of Ka Kandeds of ways More Lepeacticable in 1999 and in clear weather #7 hend be vitibles on the rat October
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(1930
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